Last Saturday (5/2/09) Nic Collins was here to celebrate the release of the second edition of his book Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition, screening some of the DVD that comes with the new edition. The picture above features a member of the CSO performing. That is, the Chicago Symphhacking Orchestra, which treated audience members to circuit-bending awesomeness! For more photos of the event, go here.
New stuff follows:
Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Litte Otsu) $12.95 – New graphic novel from the local comics superstar of The Lagoon fame.
Rumblings #2 by “Kevin H.” $3.00 Mini-comic by someone named “Kevin H” who has the same illustration style as Kevin Huizenga. Coincidence? I mean, we’re just sayin’.
On Tender Hooks The Art of Isabel Samaras (Chronicle) $35.00 – humerous and bizarre Ron English-inspired lowbrow art.
Tokion #68 $6.99
Rolling Thunder #7 Spr 09 $6.00
Gullible #29 $3.00
Workers Write vol 5 Tales From the Couch $8.00
Tiki Magazine vol 5 #1 $4.99
Amplified: Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues and Folk Musicians by Julie Schaper and Steven Horwitz (Melville) $16.95 – As reviewed in Time Out.
Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday) $24.95 – New hardcover from the author of Fight Club.
Mind Mapping A Travel Guide $5.00 – New mini comic!
18 month Moleskine Calendar journals! In different sizes and textures. they start in July 2009 and go through December 2010! $10.95-$18.95.
Sublime Stitching Stichable Stationary by Jenny Hart (Chronicle) $14.95
Big Stars Radio City 33 1/3 Series by Bruce Eaton (Continuum) $10.95
Minus Times #29 $15.00 – Yes! For real! A new issue of Drag City’s version of the Believer. Typed on a typewriter or font that looks like a typewriter? That is the question.
Try State #1 Spr 09 $12.00 – Cut’n’paste naughtiness. For lovers of the masculine physique.
Adult Crash Book and 7 inch Photographs by Dave Brown (Six Feet Under Records) $15.00
Gigantic #1 $3.00 – New lit journal.
Show Me the Money #29 $2.50
Giant Robot #59 $4.99
Burning Man Live 13 Years of Piss Clear Black Rock Citys Alternative Newspaper by Adrian Roberts (Re/Search) $24.99
Gearhead #18 $4.95
Maximumrocknroll #312 $4.00
Bizarre #148 $10.50
Fortean Times #247 May 09 $11.99
Requiem For a Paper Bag Celebrities and Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost by Davy Rothbart and various others (Fireside) $15.99 – Edited by the editor of FOUND Magazine
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine (Drawn+Quarterly) $14.95 – Now in soft cover! Stay tuned for more details about an event here at Quimby’s in June 09 with Adrian Tomine and Seth (Palookaville)!
33 1/3 Series: Lets Talk About Love by Celine Dion: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson (Continuum) $12.95
Mystery Theater Episode #1 The Human Brain by Julia Wertz $3.00 – New mini comic from the creator of Fart Party.
